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Mobile App Testing Inside Visual Studio

Microsoft Build wasn't all about Microsoft this year; well, that's not true, obviously it was, but a few "Microsoft approved" partners got a look in, too. Amongst the sanctified this year was Perfecto Mobile, with its public preview of a MobileCloud for Visual Studio Plugin for testing mobile apps on real devices inside Visual Studio.

Software application developers are able to use C# and manage device automation control with Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS).

The company sells its wares based upon a promise of this being a "significant jump start" for .NET web teams transitioning to mobile.

"By utilizing the MobileCloud Platform, Visual Studio [developers] can use existing expertise and write automation tests in C# that are executable across any mobile operating system (Android, iOS, Windows Phone) or app style (web, native, hybrid), all with a single test script. Users have instant and always-available access to globally distributed real devices to support testing throughout the code-build-test cycle," said Eran Yaniv, CEO, Perfecto Mobile.

Microsoft is apparently happy to back Perfecto's claims to fame and says that Perfecto's Mobile App Quality Platform is a "valuable complement" to Microsoft's suite of mobile development, testing, and ALM tools.

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